THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 11, 1904.
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SEVEN THINGS NECESSARY TO KEEP IT FREE. AND THE
CHIEF IS AN INTELLIGENT AND VIGILANT CITIZENSHIP
ree Government
ryce on a
James B
INSTITUTIONS are Intended to work
for ft particular people at a par
ticular tlma. You must have re
gard for the particular time In
Judging of the quality of the in
tltutlona. For Inatance. people have
been In the habit 01 supposing that
maaaea of men have alwaya certala
propertlea of popular government. That
la ft mlataken Idea. After all, a popular
government In Sicily M not the same
thing aa a popular government In New
York.
Therefore you must examine what
may be called all the condlttona af
fecting the working of human nature In
government. In other words, you muat
consider what ia called the environ
ment. Let me try not to go Into the sub
ject In detail, but to convey aome Idea
of what la meant by the Influence of
environment by giving you ft number of
Instance In which It doea affect the
working Institutions.
A very Important element which haa
to be considered before determining a
good institution la the character of the
country in which -it la at work, and by
country I mean the area occupied by
the people you muat .onalder the char
acter of lta surface.
Another element la found In the ca
pacity of the country for producing
wealth: lta minerals. Its soil, lta pas
ture, lta foreata and any other element
that can produce wealth, and In the oc
cupations which lta natural reaourcea
and condition prescribe for the people
who Inhabit It. These occupations of
the people will have a great Influence
upon the kind of government which they
will produce, and which la fit for them.
And then you must consider the pon
dltlon of education, the met. .0,1 of com
munication, whether by land or sea, by
By REV.
1 (Copyright, 1004, by W. R Hesrat.)
"X. NH of the essential points In the
1 problem of how to keep young
sa m is tor young moiner 10
with their children aa much as
possible. Let thm try If, ad later they
will agree with me that the only possi
ble way for ft mother to keep young
and fresh rs to spend as much time aa
possible with her children and with
young people.
Young people can always be made to
associate with their eiders. 1 owe n
greatest enjoyment of my llf to the fact
that r jcould associate with my father
and mother and an elder brother and Bis
ter. I have never forgotten what the
companionship of older friends ha been
to me.
When my mother. tbik..0ver .70. was
asked what her chief occupation waa, ahe
said that It waa talking to young people.
And it waa always so. When we were
children growing up we talked to her
and with hr about everything we naa
aeen or done. Sh alwaya mad ua feel
that ah was enjoying It all, and I be
lieve ah waa.
Sarah Bernhardt, who I believe 1 (0
year of age. ha ft number of young peo
ple wno taae care 01 ner. one unuoi -stands
the art of keeping young, and
therefor she always keeps with -young
people as much as possible.
- A great mistake that old people ore
aft to make I to draw away from th
younger generation and live ft reserved,
lonely llf among themselves. Nothing
is better for even young man or woman
of 21 or 22 than ft company of young
people younger than himself or herself.
It la good for boy of 15 to have 00m
panlona among men of 20 or older, and
for a man of 10 nothing la better than
companion among younger people
id w aid Lambert, on of the great Iron
men of th country, now about 90 yeara
old, told me that when he first went to
Kngland aa the agent of a large com
pany he was 21 or 22. He waa corre
spondent and agent of a large eastern
firm before he waa 26.
He attended business councils, dinner
parties, visited country plsces with cor
respondents and agenta of other con
cerns, and he said that be did not dare
to tell how old he waa, because the older
people with whom he waa associating
wouldn't have had the slightest respect
for his opinion or for himself had they
known his age. He was a mere boy.
That la why I send young men to th
west as much a I do. I always say to a
young man:
. "You would better go weat. Go to the
Pacific coast, the Islands in ths Pacific,
and. In fact, get out anywhere in the
weat and see how they do things. It Is
always well to see how they do things
in other parte of the country. In the
west they are learning to depend on the
young men in great enterprises."
It Is said that the battle of Gettysburg
wss won by sn army of boys averaging
23 years of age. If they could trust
them to do that much, why not let them
do more? When Mr. Bancroft, the hls
torlsn, describes the setting aside of Ar
temus Ward b'y General Washington In
the revolutionary war, the reason he
gives I that Ward, being 48, was too old.
, . Lafayette was wounded at Bran
dywlne when only It. Knox and Pick
ens and others were not over 25 when the
revolution began. One of the causes, I
Vital Importance of Cheerfulness
By MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN
(Copyright, 1004, by the AnerlciD-Joaraal-Eiamlaer.)
BULWER LYTTON declared that
"If there Is a virtue In the world
at which we ahould aim, It la
cheerfulness." No wiser axiom
could be uttered. Without cheerfulness
life would be one eternal" 'grind, with
naught to lighten lta burdens and bright
en Its devious pathways.
Cheerfulness Is the product of temp
pernment. physical condltlona and culti
vation. Scientists have undertaken to
locate it in the human tody; they insist
It Is a quality of mind and heart. Peo
ple are spoken of as being "cheerful and
light-hearted," "cheerful-minded." a
having "a cheerful dlaposltlon." or as
being "cheerless and heavy-hearted."
Those possessing th heaven-born qual
ity of cheerfulne ar not easily affect
ed by bodily HI o adversities; to them
there Is ever a silver lining to every
cloud. They, sbove sll othere, r the
dispensers of happiness. A cheerful
face Ilka the aunshlne, banlahes th
storm clouds. A rhsery smile Is s bene
diction that unconaiously drive away
th frowns of th angry or depressed.
It 1 not because the possessor of a
cheerful disposition alwaya saya the
wisest and tendereat things; it is, the
tone and manner In which one speaks,
the expression of the eyei. which pene
t rates to the soul and drives away cares
feare.
foot or beast of burden, and in our own
days by railroad or telegraph. And you
muat conalder the direction In which the
tastes of the people may go.
Then you muat conalder their disposi
tion with regard to outer countrlea. We
will see how much depemla upon their
relatione to others, upon their liability
to be taken by enemies, upon their
powers of defense, in the natjiral char
acter of the country all those things
that make a difference whether a com
munity develops a military or civic tact.
Then you must consider the relatione
of clasaes. Theae are determined by
economic conditions. Where conducive
to wealth. It la more proper that a dif
ference of conditions will grow up, that
soma will be rich and some will be
poor, and the difference of the claaaea
will be repeated In the structure of the
government. V
Win must alsn consider rnetnl phr.
acter and habits of a people. You can
not Impose a form of government upon
a people without some regard to haKst
and the capacity which those habits
have for Industry, for working and for
education.
Then you have a group of differences
indicated by the word religion. It la ft
factor In many waya.
Religion Is at once a cause and an
effect. It Is an Index of the degree of
1 l Ulxatlon which a people have reached,
and It Is also a factor In fitting a people
for ft higher or lower form of Institu
tions. All these different conditions have
comer to be recognised to such an ex
tent that sensible men have come to
abandon what was a favorite study and
inquiry with the political phlloaopher
one or two rentilrle ago.
In thoae days of the French revolu
tion, and a good many days after the
How to Keep Young
DR. EDWARD EVERETT
think, and deserved causes, of Roose
velt's popularity is that he breathea the
health and spirit and youth of the coun
try. He stands for youth and health aisl
energy.
- Now, It must be taken for granted that
no one approaches the ethlca of thla
question with any expectation of profit
unleas he baa previously applied the ear
lier directions. It is supposed, for in
stance, that he haa accustomed himself
to aleep and eat regularly, and that he
takes regular exercise In the open air
every day of his life.
A story which one of the most beauti
ful women I ever knew made to me when
ahe muat have been about 48 years old
Is apropos here. . It was In the early
days of my ministry and 1 had been
making a pariah call. As I came away
I laughed and sstdf
"Would you be good enough to give me
th secret of beauty?"
"Why, what do you mean?" ahe said.
i"WeII," I Said, "If you will permit m
to say so, you look younger than any of
the young ladle I meat, and yet you
have a boy of II."
"I can tell you one thing, Mr. Hal,"
ahe replied; "when we were married and
cam out bar to Longwood to live,' my
husband aald to me: 'Sarah, the trou
ble with you will be that you won't take
exercise enough, and I will make thla
promise to you I will give you 76 cents
a day for every walk you take which
carries you further than such and such
a post.' Of course. It waa nothing but
fun. I didn't need the money, and didn't
do it for that, but many a time I have
put on my India-rubber boots and cloak
and taken a mile walk and back because
I wanted to score him with the 7R cents.
I got Into the habit of that two-mile
walk every day, rain or shine."
Now very few women1 of today have
got Into that habit, but It would be bet
ter for them If they had. And so I say,
live In the open air Just as much as you
can.
If you are to maintain intercourse
with the young, you must. In certain
thinga, live In their life. You need not
Ignore the fact that you are not physi
cally young and make the mistake of
playing ball at (0 with boys of 18 un
less you want to. Don't pretend that
you are a boy.
A certain doctor told me that at 8S
yeara of age a man In good health waa
In his prime, but he also said that at
the ag of 46 physical strength Is on the
decline. I remember that he took a
piece of paper and drew the aeml-clrcle
of a man's life, using It to Illustrate the
Increase of physlcsl powers to their full
development, which he said waa th
middle-of the curve, and that the curve
decltfged after 46. But he ssld thst a
man's spiritual life was always enlarg
ing. That Is the reason why, when you talk
with an older gentleman he knows so
much more than you do and Is able to
help you there, though perhaps he Is
In such physical decline that you could
throw him out of the window If you
wanted to. That person muat rely more
and more upon the experience of ad
vancing life, for Instance, than on his
dancing or walking or active exercise.
To make the best of the power thus
gained by experience we must use It un
consciously. One mustn't constantly be saying: "I
Hoapltal and prison attendants have
told some touching stories of the effect
of cheerful visitors upon patients and
prisoners. Often Inmates of these Insti
tutions are so gloomy and depreaaed
that It seems Impossible to arouse thetn.
Perhapn unannounced some good angel
comes In, passes up and down the aisles.
Inquiring after the health and welfare of
each unfortunate, graciously extending a
hand of greeting or uttering at few words
of encouragement and good wlahes which
act like a balm to their suffering souls
snd bodies, encouraging them to make
new resdlves and efforts to recover Trom
disease or reform J they have commit
ted crime.
No matter what position people occu
py In life, much of their success depends
upon the cheerfulness with which they
take hold of their duties. The churlish
servant Is unsatlafactory. no matter wlfh
what preclalon and dispatch the work
may be done. If. nn the contrary, nn
employe la always bright snd cheery. In
numerable deficiencies will be excused
and overlooked.
A moroae, disobliging tradesman has
few customers that cannot be supplied
with their wanta elsewhere. The) busi
ness man who starts with gloomy fore
boding and a cheerless countenance will
rarely succeed, because he advertise his
want of confidence In himself by hie
melancholy face and depressed spirits
Of ftlt people, however, th wife and
French revolution, people were urging
views and holding discussions on the
best form of government. Nobody Is
discussing th'at question now, because
It la acknowledged that the beat form
Of government la that best suited to a
particular community.
The facts are not measurable In the
way that the facts of natural science
are. You cannot be sure that the con
dlttona will be the aame Ave or ten
yeara hence aa they are at the moment
when your observations are taken I
feel this la so in regard to your own
government. The conditions In your
government seem to be different today
from what they were years ago. I
don't see how any person can state that
the conditions of 1(70 could be true at
thla moment. Therefore, one may ar
rive at thla general conclusion, that,
although a qualitative science. It Is not
an exact science.
In political science you can determine
the existence of a given phenomenon.
It Is possible, I believe, with regard to
nearly every form of government, to de
termine whether or not political cor
ruption la present, either among officials
or electors; but to determine the quan
tity to which It la there Is obviously a
more difficult task, and one which I
think no one without the longest and
most protracted Inquiry could satisfy
himself that he had accomplished. That
la an Instance of the extra difficulty of
applying to our science the methods
which the scientist may use.
Now, speaking generally, a monarchy.
Is more dangerous In a small commu
nity tfuun In a larger one; It Is more
likely to degenerate' Into tyranny.
It makes all the difference to a mon
archy whether It be national or not!
that It, whether the monarch rules over
a nation which Is homogenous and pene
HALE.
am older than you and I know a great
deal more." They say that young peo
ple think old people are fools and old
people thai young people are. One
should keep that thought out of sight.
We must not be thinking of ourselves
all the time. Don't be bothered about
yourself. The good God will take care
of that If you take care of the other
thinga But nobody ever forgot himself
who had to remember to forget himself.
The way to forget yourself Is to think
of somebody larger and better than
yourself.
Now, as a matter of persons! experi
ence, aa well aa what the best guldea
would tell us. I think the study of na
ture la a great part of this forgetting of
one's self In the right way. Well I re
member thdse charming cards that that
man up In Vermont makes by which he
shows ths glories and beauty of the
snowf lakes. Jhe boy or girl seeing the
wonderful pmsclenoe and wisdom of th
good God In making 60 snowflake dif
ferent from each other may also learn
to feel constantly the presence of God In
the glorlea and beauties qf nature.
So with anybody who will launoh out
Into the love of nature. Take- my lady
of 48, already mentioned, in her daily
walk. If. while she wss walking, she
was not thinking about the 16 cents, but
was keeping the run of the crlcketa and
beetles and spiders, and the lichens and
the mosses, ahe got Into the larger life
and felt herseir a fellow workman with
God.
The gardener who raises a lovely rose
Is a workman working with God. The
woman who gets her hyacinths to bloom
aa she want them to Is a workman
working with GodJ
And so I say. the .sooner you. get the
child or the young person interested In
nature the better It Is for him and you.
It may be a common ground between
you and the young person.
If you are fond of a garden, do not
satisfy yourself with carrying that on
aa you did SO years ago. Read and
study and observe. Determine that in
some one point that ga den ahall excel,
that It ahall be a better garden than it
was possible for you to have SO years
ago. That meana that, though you are
under some dtsadvantagea in being 30
years older, you still have the greater
advantages that belong to your age.
It is a pity for a man of advancing
age to "quit business," aa the familiar
phraae is. He should have some busi
ness, although, as the doctor whom I
have quoted says, a man of (6 should
not force himself to his duty.
The title of this article, "How to Re
main Young," Is the same as that of one
which I wrote about 20 years ago. it
was really suggested to me by a suc
cessful publisher, a great friend of mine.
He wrote to me, aaklng for something
on this subject. I said I would. do it and
prepared the paper. I hope I ahall not
be misunderstood when I say that I
think that was the only thing thst was
ever returned to me by a publisher.
I aatd In that article, with perfect
simplicity, that a child of God who was
at work with his Father, and was in his
Father's life ell the time, would natur
ally rely on Omnipotence; that If you
allied youraelf with God you were
almighty yourself and might rely on
His power as a workman working with
the mothy should be cheerful; the hap
piness or the husband and the children
dependa upon her. If eh Is low-splrlted
and melancholy, how enn th husbsnd
come to her for sympathy and encour
agement In his business worries? He
looks to her for Inspiration In all hla
undertakings They may sometimes be
very harassing, and he may be tried al
most to desperation, and If he must go
home to a wife whose face ia without
smiles, and who Is gloomy and spirit
less, he Is all the more depressed: where
as If she la merry and bright and in
sists that the worries he has are trivi
alities and that they are sure to adjust
themselves to his liking or to vanish al
together, nine times out of ten before he
Is really aw.are of the fact he haa for
gotten them or they have dwindled Into
Insignificance. The mountains thst de
spair builds up by brooding over mole
hills can best be removed by cheerful
ness. Many a case of melsnchola has
developed In both men and women
through indulgence In gloomy thoughts
and a yielding to low spirits snd Inslg
nlflcant physical Indisposition. Some
persons give way to grief over th death
of a loved one to the extent of altogether
neglecting the living. They sometimes
profess great faith in God. They know
all must die. and yet thsy act aa If they
had no hope beyond th grave. They
distress all with whom they come In
contact, and afflict their families by
trated by a national scale, or whether
It la a monarchy operating by the power
of one nation over one or several na
tions with which he la not In aympathy.
Clearly in the latter caae his rule Is
likely to be exposed to evil which would
not be likely In the former Instance.
There Is a difference also If it Is held
In check by religion.
There is a difference If It Is military.
If It rests upon an army, absolutism la
more likely to obtain.
If a citizen of the United State de
sires to study other governments; be
cause, after all. we have got to con
sider political conditions in other coun
tries, he will desire to know what are
the essentials of a free government.
In Oie first place, ft free government
requires an Intelligent and vigilant peo
ple. No people whch la not both In
teiitgeni ana watennu, Hnxious 10 pre
aerve lta own liberty, can maintain a
free government. There Is an old maxim
of your revolutionary daya that covers
this: Perpetual vigilance 1 the price
of freedom." The citizen muat be a
good citizen and continually alive to hi
duty. j
Second, It Is another essential of free
government that It should provide a sys
tem for bringing the will of the people
to bear upon the government; for mak
ing the government a representation of
the popular will. That may. be done,
speaking broadly, by two methods the
one, the method of representation In
which the people choose certain persona
to legislate, or by a second method of
popular vote, either by a primary as
sembly or in the form of a vote taken
not in an aasembly, but by the people
over a wide area, as, for example, In the
ease of the referendum In Swltserland
or the popular vote on a constitutional
amendment in thla country.
God; that In the morning when you got
up you could aay, "Well, I am not much
myself, but the good God will carry me
through."
Well, this psper was returned. Th
publisher said that he thought he ought
to print It, and his wife thought he
ought to, but his waa not a religious
Journal and he did not want It to be
stamped as such, ' snd. therefore, he
could not print the article.
Now. If that Is the real test of the
literary world, If ws are going to try to
get on with the attraction of gravity
without knowing who makes It and ac
cept the universe without knowing
what Its life springs from. why. thsn I
think America Is In a pretty bad way.
The man or woman who doesn't under
stand what It la to live in a spiritual
world, who doesn't know anything about
being a workman with God. is a person
you can t give any rules to, because that
man or woman wont use the rules. -
Very seriously, the way to remain
young Is to remember that we are Im
mortal beings; that this business of so
many yeara Is only a sort of a calendar
bunlneaa and'a very Insignificant part of
qur whole career; that we are really
children of God, If we partake of God's
nature.
Aa God is eternal, we are Immortal.
If we can always bear that In mind we
ahall remain young. . -
The
Story
.CHAPTER I.
Before her proud old father stands
The heroine so fair
(A half a page about her handa,
A page about her hair).
"You ahall not wed thla man!" gro.wls he
1 We think we quote th text).
"Dare to defy my rule, you'll be"
(Continued In our next)
CHAPTER It
The villain with hi cigarette
Now wool the heroin;
She wall the day sh ever met
A man so filled With sin.
"Refuse meh, gyurl!" he coldly sneers.
While he stands there, perplexed,
"Then you shall be, through all your
year "
(Continued In our next.)
CHAPTER III.
The hero meets the villain now;
The hero aaya, "Aha!" ,
And wildly mopa hla furrowed brow;
The villain mutters, "Bah!"
The villain telle the hero he
Home money haa annexed.
The hero swears he soon shall be
(Continued In our next. )
CHAPTER IV.
Proud father, villain, hero, too.
Detective by th score:
Proud father: "Ne'er again must you
Be darkening my door!"
The villain laughs his scornful sneer
Whose tones are clrcumflexed.
The hero: "Walt for me. my dear "
(Continued in our next.)
CHAPTER V.
The hern languishes In Jail;
The villain, with a grin.
Saya that he'll go the hero's ball
And wed the heroine.
But, ho! the1 hero's Innocence
Is proven by a friend;
They wed; the villain slouches thence;
l'roud father melts. (The end.)
Chicago Tribune.
their tearful eyes, cheerless and woe
begone aces.
Mothers should remember that their
children are destined to become ac
quainted with grief soon enough In life,
and they should never allow them to see
signs of sorrow and trouble in their
faces. They should teach them the'vltai
Importance of cheerfulness by never
varying happineaa and amiable dlaposl
tlon. How many little ones have first
learned there wereclouda as well as sun-.
shine by looking up Into the tearful eyea
of their mothers, and, though unable to
divine the meaning of her trouble, bave
climbed up to kiss away her tears, and
doubtless wander whnt they meant.
No duty la more obligatory than that
of cheerfulness. "What the sun Is to
nature, what God Is to the stricken heart
which knows how to lesn upon Him. are
the cheerful persons In the house and by
the wayside."
CHOOL FOB Hi
Even blacksmiths and locksmiths
must hare technical school educations
In ths fatherlsnd. Jiermany haa seven
schools devoted to the training of as
pirants to these trades, Only graduates
of public schools sre admitted, and to
one of them, that at Rosaweln. are ad
mitted only the graduates of one of the
other six blscksmlth and locksmith
schools. This Rossweln school hss a
highly advanced curriculum which
covers physics, chemistry and electricity,
with psrtlculsr reference to practical
construction of machinery. The schools
are supported by the blacksmith and
locksmith guilds, aided by subventions
from the government of Saxony snd pri
vate beneficence. The course lasts from
two to three years, according to the
school.
Third, it Is essential to a free gov
ernment that the election ahould be hon
orable: that la to aay, that there ahould
be a fair count in order that the true
will of the people will be listed.
Fourth. It Is essential that there
should be adequate Inducements to ca
pable men 1 offer themaelvea for the
work of government. And these Induce
ments may be of two kinds. It may
be a positive Inducement In the form of
attraction to a man to work for a gov
ernment. In the wuy of remunerating
him; or, pn the other hand. It may be the
absence of abuse or suspicions to which
he may he exposed at the hands of the
people.
It Is further easentlal that the con
stitution should contain a method by
which responsibility may be fixed upon
the person who Is answerable for any
act. The repreeentatlve may be made
responsible for his votes, and with this
purpose hla votes must be recorded and
known. The official must be responsi
ble for his acts, and It must be possible
to bring responsibility or liability home
to htm, o that he cannot shirk out of
It by alleging that he acted for someone
else.
Sixth. It Is essential that the Judiciary
be Independent and be honest. They
must not be displaced at the will, of the
legislature or executive. It is upon the
honesty of the Judiciary thst reliance
Is had for the proper enforcement of the
laws.
Seventh, you must have In every free
government nn adequate system of
checks and balsnre, to secure the people
from the dsnger of acting with too
much haste. On the other hand you
muat give adequate protection against
undue delay.
To theae seven requisites I might add
two others that are not peculiar to free
IT would seem that women are more
largely swayed by deattny than
ouraelvea. They submit to its de
crees with far- more almpllclty,
nor la there sincerity In the resistance
they offer. They are stni nearer to
God and yield themselves with less re
serve to the pure workings of the mys
tery. And therefore it la doubtless thst all
the incidents In our life In which they
take part seem to Bring us nearer to the
very fountain head ' of destiny. It Is
above all when by their aide that
moments come, unexpectedly, when a
"clear preaentlment" flashea across us.
ft preaentlment of a life that does not
always seem parallel to the life we know
of. They lead us close to the gates of
our being.
May It not be during one of those pro
found moments when his head la
pillowed on a woman's breast that the
hero lea ma to know the strength and
steadfastness of his star? And, lntTeed,
will any true sentiment, of the future
ever come to the man who has not had
his resting place In a woman's heart.
Yet again do we enter the troubled
circles of higher conscience. Ah! how
Ltrue It Is that, here too, "the so-called
psychology la a hobgoblin, that haa
usurped In the sanctuary Itself the place
reserved for the veritable Images of
the gods." For It Is not the surface
that always" concerns us nay, nor rs tt
even the deepest of hidden thoughts.
Do you imagine that love knows only of
thoughts and acta and worda and that
the soul never emerges from Its
dungeon? Do I need to be told whether
she whom I take In my arms todsy Is
Jealous or faithful, gay" or sad, sincere
or treacherous? Do you think that these
wretched words can attain the heights
whereon our souls repose and where
our deatlny fulfills Itself In silence?
What care" I whether she speak of rain
or Jewela, of pins or feathers; what
oare I though ahe appear not to under
stsnd? Do you think It t for a sublime
word I thirst when I feel that a soul Is
gating Into my soul? Do I not know
that the moat beautiful of thoughts dare
not raise their heada when the mysteri
ous confront them?
I am ever stsndlng st the seashore
and were I Plato. Pascal or Mchsel
Angelo and the woman I loved merely
telling me of her earrings, the words I
would say and the worda she would ssy
would 'appear but the aame as they
floated on the waves of the fathomless
Inner sea that each of ua would be con
templating In the other.
Let but my very loftleat thoughts be
weighed In t lie scale of life or love It
will not turn the balance against the
three little words that maid who loves
me shall have whispered of her sliver
bangles, her pearl necklsce or her
trinkets of glass.
It Is we who do not understand, be
cause we never rise sbove the earth
level of our Intellect. Let us but ascend
to the first snows of the mountstn and
all Inequalities sre leveled by the purify
ing hand of the horlton that opens be
fore us. What difference, then, be
tween a pronouncement of Marcus
Aurellua and the worda of the child com
plaining of the cold? Let us be humble
Fables of tke Day-Labors Journey
By BOLTON HALL.
A
STRONG horse set out on a
never-ending Journey, and, be
cause the way was steep and
the flints 'sharp and hla driver
stern he fell Isms the very first day, but
in the process of time his feet hardened
and by Natural Selection he learned to
pick out the amooth places, and to avoid
the rocks; so when hn came to where
the road was smoothly pavod with In
vention the Prophets said: "Surely, he
will one day come to the end of hla
Journey."
But he paased across the common
lands and a great thorn ran up Into his
hoof, so that he fell lame worse than be
fore. But the driver. Necessity. 'laahed
him sll the harder.
Then the Doctor considered his case;
they saw that he was shod with the Iron
Law of Wagea, and that Competition
pressed him down.
to they bound his feet with I'nlons.
lest he should take too long steps, snd
decreed thst he should work but eight
hours a day. They brought him ihln
broth called Charity, and put a heckrein
on him for "Protection."
But he grew only the worse, and began
to bite nd kirk at those sgalnat whom
he stumbled
Then the Prophets said: "He Is de
praved and ignorant, and he muat be
taught."
So they made a law for compulsory
Education, but he became more dlsoosv
governments, but apply to all govern
ments, without which a government can
not remain efficient.
One of theae Is an upright pacific
church; that Is. a ministry who are fit
fur their work. The other Is ample pro
vision for the stability of the govern
ment; that Is. the maintenance of public
order and due execution of the lawa.
If you find that any particular form
ot government secures all theae advan
tages you sny set that government down
as safe.
Now let us see how the republics of
ancient Greece aecured them. You will
be thus enabled to discover what are
the faults of government. Let me make
two preliminary remark. You will
note that If you don't Improve a gov
ernment It will become worse. There
are always changes going on and the
government must keep up with those
changea. We are especially bound to
this with regard to democratic govern
ment. There is every prospect that thla
form of government will continue to
remain In the world for some consider
able time. Nothing comes to stay. There
is no human Institution of any kind
that you can venture to assert is per
manent. Nevertheless democracy will last aa
long as anything which we can foresee.
It haa- lta faults. Although some forms
of government are worse than others,
all forms of government are bad. They
all fall short of the Ideals which we
set before ourselves. There Is no human
Institution which will nojt go to pieces
If you don't take care to repair it.
Therefore never let us forget to learn
all that Sua cm from th experience of
the ancient world.
Now then, the Greek republics were
In constant fear of overthrow. They
Women and Destiny
By MAURICE MAETERLINCK.
snd learn to distinguish between aeol
dent and easence. Let not "sticks that
float" cauae ua to forget the prodigies
of the gulf. The .most gloroua thoughts
and the moot degraded ldeaa .can no
more ruffle th eternal surface of our
soul than, amid the stars of heaven,
Himalaya or precipice can alter the
surface of the earth. - A look, a kiss
and all la said, and J know that she
who la by my aide la my equal.
But truly thla equal la admirable and
strange, and when love comee to her
even the lowest of wantons possesses
that which we never have. Inasmuch as.
In her thoughts,' love Is alwaya eternal.
Therefore It Is, perhaps, that besides
their primitive Instincts, all women
have communications with the unknown
that are denied to us. Great is the dis
tance that separates the best of men
from the treasures of the second bound
ary, and when ft aolemn moment of life
demands a Jewel from thla treasure they
no longer" remember the paths that
thither" lead and vainly offer to the Im
pervious, undecelvabie circumstance
the false trinkets that their Intellect
has fashioned. But the woman never
forgets the path that leads to the center
of her being, and no matter whether 1
find her in opulence or In poverty, In
ignorance or In- fulness of knowledge,
In shame" or in glory, do I but whisper
one word that has truly come forth
from the virgin depths of my soul, she
will retrace her footsteps along the
mysterious paths that she has never
forgotten and without a moment's hesi
tation she will bring back to me from
out her Inexhaustible stores of love a
word, aa look or a gesture that ahall be
no lesa pure than my own. It la as
though aoul were always within call,
for by day and night Is she prepared
to give answer to the loftleat appeals
from snother soul snd the ransom of
the poorest is undlstlngulshable from
the ransom of a queen.
With reverence muat we draw near to
them, be they lowly or arrogant. Inat
tentive or lost In dreams, be they smil
ing still or plunged In tears, for they
know the thing that we do not know
and have a lamp that we have loot.
Their abiding place la at the foot it
self of the Inevitable, whose well-worn
paths are visible to them more clearly
than to us. And thence It Is that their
strange Intultiona have come to them;
then- gravity, at which we wonder, and
we feel that even In their moat trifling
actions they are conscious Of being up
held by the strong, unerring hands of
the gods.
I said before that they drew us nearer
to the gates of our being; verily might
we believe, when we are with them,
amid the bewildering whispers that
doubtleaa waited on the birth of things,
then when speech was yet hushed, for
fear lest command or forbidding ahould
Issue forth, unheard.
She will never cross the threshold of
that gate, and she awaits us within,
where are the fountain heads. And
when we come and knock from without
and she opens to our bidding, her hand
will still keep hold of latch and key.
She will look for one Instant at the!
man wno ha been sent to her snd In
that brief moment she has learned all
that had to be learned, and the yeara to
come have trembled to the end ot time.
tented still, and great blotches broke
out on his body.
"Jhese," said they, "are Social Evils."
80 they plastered them with Expediency,
and he checked his fever with Drink.
Necessity lashed him only the harder.
Then they organised a Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty and made labor
laws: yet he went all the more pain
fully. 'This." aald they. "Is the result of
overcrowding In th stables, and we
must take measures," they aald. "for the
suppression of sweating "
But these gave no relief.
A certain Radical looked at him and
said: ' Xt us first take out the thorn.
Monopoly."
Hut the Sages answered: "If you take
out the thorn there will be no stimulus
to work, snd Progress will stop."
The Radical said: The natural con
dition Is the best."
But they answered: "Old you not eee
that he wss lame before he picked up the
thorn 1"
He said: "Let us take out the thorn '
A Moral Teacher replied: "The
Churches have sanctioned that thorn
remember that there Is no panacea I
will bandage his root with Rcelgnatlon;
then I will get upon his back, with th
clergyman, and he will go much better."
And for a time the horse did seem to
go Ur, until be could stand the MM
weei unsiame i uere was great jeal
ousy and a disposition to leva! down
the citizens to prevent any man reach
ing prominence.
A regular Institution waa the casting
of lots to determine who should bscooM
officials. The Greeks were unable te
resist pecuniary temptation. The
thing. It la true, was true at the
time of other communities than th
democracies. In Greece the terms of
office were ton short, end the citizens,
of th wealthy class neglected then'
duties by falling to attend the assembly.
OTionv inn nen rnniu im. mimw
takes the form of unwillingness to serve
In public office. The desire for equality
sometimes contributes to make th
v. inn 1 omuiy icm penwi inuu nt
. . i . ......... a -1 1
ought to be, because, the idea
that anybody la good enough.
Corruption among the Greek took
various forms bribes in th army, or
the hiring of orators to persuade th
people. In modern times It has It root
in th aame tendency, namely, "tt may
use public office for private gain.
This Is a danger that w should si-
ways watch for and which from th
birth of free government In Greece,
where It began to show Itself. Is an evil
against which men must contend.
The RomnnsO'hsd a far longer and
stronger constitutional life than the
Greeks. The Rnmana war ft compara
tively dull people. You do not want
too much cleverneas In everybody It
perished not so much by Internal cause,
but from cause brought about by It
own conquests. The Romans hsd too
much pride to adjuat themselves to th
conquest of Italy and the conquest of
the world.
The Greeks perished because they con
quered, and the Romans because of thlr
conquests. j ... -JJj
Who shall tell us. of what consists
the first look of love, "that magic wand
made of a ray of broken light," the ray
that haa lasued forth from the eternal
home of our being, that haa transformed
two souls and given them twenty cen
turies of youth? The door may 'open
again or close, pay no heed nor make
further effort, for all la decided. She
knows. She will no longer concern bar
self with the thinga you do or amy or
even think, and If ah notice them. It
will be but with a smile, and uncon
sciously ahe will fling from her all that
doe not help to confirm the certitude
of that first glance. And If you think
you have deceived her, and that her
Impression Is wrong-," be sure thst tt
Is she who Is right and you yourself
who are mistaken.
I would that all those who hare suf
fered from women's hand would loudly
proclaim It and give ua their reasons,
and If those reasons be well founded w
shall Indeed be surprised and ahall have
advanced far forward In the mystery.
For women are Indeed the veiled slaters
of all the great things we do not see.
They are Indeed nearest of kin to the
infinite that la about us And they alone
can still smile at It with the Intimate
grace of the child to whom its father
inspires no fear.
It 1 they who preserve her below the
pure fragrance of our soul, Ilk soma
Jewel from heaven, which none know
how to use, and were they to depart th
spirit would reign in solitude In a des
ert. Theirs are still the divine emotions
of the first days, and the sources of
their being lie deeper far than ours. In
all that was Illimitable.
Thoae who complain of them know
not the heights where true klaaea ar.
to be found, and verily do 1 pity them.
And yet how Insignificant do women
seem when we look at them as we pass
by! We see them moving about In
their little homes this one is bending
forward, down there, another la sob
bing a third sings, and the last sews,
and there Is not one of us who under
stands. ... We vialt them aa one
visits pleasant thinga We approach
them with caution and suspicion, and It
la scarcely possible for the soul to en
ter. We question them mlstrustlngty
they who know already answer naught;
and we go away shrugging our shoul
ders, convinced that they do not under
stand. "But what need for them to under
stand." answers the poet who Is always
right, "what need for them to under
stand, those thrice happy one who have
choaen the better part and who even aa
a pure flame of love In thla earth of
ours, taken of the celestial Are that
irradiates all thinga. ahlne forth only
from the pinnacles of templee snd the
mastheads of ships that wander?"
Home of nature a strangest Ideas sr
often revealed, at sacred momenta, to
these maidens who love, and Ingeniously
and unconsciously will they declare
them. The aage follows In their foot
steps to gather up the Jewela that la
their Innocence and Joy they scatter
along their path. The poet who feel
what they feel offers homage to their
love and trie In hi songs to trans
plant that love, that la th germ of th
age of gold, to other time and other
countrlea.
no longer. Then he bucked off even the
Clergyman.
The Clergyman said that waa Original
Sin.
And the Radical repeated: "Let me
take out the thorn."
Hut the Politicians cried: "Anarch
ist! Visionary! Fool! If you take out
the thorn you will break up hla Syatsm
and besides he will not let any of u
get up again upon hi back.''
But again the Radical said. Take
out the thorn."
And the Professors said: "Yew ar
a parrot, and do not understand Politi
cal Economy; we must provM work for
him: and the State muat own hi har
ness, so that there will be no lark of
traps and no fault In them "
Still the Horse grew wilder sad wore,
ami the pig-headed Radical said only,
again and again: "Take out the thorn."
A Prohibitionist said: 1 think he
his other diseases, due to In tern per aoa."
"No! Due to wickedness" cried
Minister.
It mar be so," rtd that fTSw
mlnH ittel "tvnl t mHi Ufc. ul tm
thorn, N
dun the 1 asaai nation.
am tiy I ftftsw to